Some posts and article worth reading,
- “Data mining doesn’t work for spotting terrorists” http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/10/analysis-data-mining-doesnt-work-for-spotting-terrorists/ and the research paper http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/22285/Protecting_Individual_Privacy.pdf via @ VGautron
- “Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Coding” by @ aliciatweet ht @ fdastous
- “Expertise needed like never before” http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/61439/issue-expertise (about actuaries’ expertise…)
- “Japan’s birth rate problem is way worse than anyone imagined” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/07/japans-birth-rate-problem-is-way-worse-than-anyone-imagined/
- “A Walk Along the Swiss Border” http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/11/a-walk-along-the-swiss-border/100846/
- “Decentralize All The Things!” http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/10/decentralize-all-the-things/ by @ rezendi
- Top countries (by the number of scientific publication, per capita) http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/20k5dk/top_40_countries_by_the_number_of_scientific/ ht @ conradhackett
- “Donors prone to blaming the victims of man-made humanitarian disasters” http://futureworldgiving.org/2015/01/09/donors-prone-to-blaming-the-victims-of-man-made-humanitarian-disasters/
- via @ BrendanNyhan How not to do academic Twitter – tweeting a call for papers line by line : see @AEJMC_MCS
- “Most of America’s rich think the poor have it easy” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/08/most-of-americas-rich-think-the-poor-have-it-easy/
- “Quasi-Newton methods – a new direction” http://jmlr.org/papers/volume14/hennig13a/hennig13a.pdf see also http://techtalks.tv/talks/quasi-newton-methods-a-new-direction/57289/
- “Probabilistic Interpretation of Linear Solvers” http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2058
- “Blowing Off Class? We Know” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/opinion/blowing-off-class-we-know.html
- “Daily Routines” https://podio.com/site/creative-routines
- lot of people see economics as a conservative science: don’t know if that was true but if so those days are long gone http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-07/economics-stars-swing-left
- “Terrorism Works” http://gawker.com/terrorism-works-1678049997 by @ hamiltonnolan
- “Why Big Data Has Everything To Do With The Price Of Oil” http://www.forbes.com/sites/teradata/2015/01/07/why-big-data-has-everything-to-do-with-the-price-of-oil/
- “Want to marry a doctor? You’re probably too late.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2015/01/08/want-to-marry-a-doctor-youre-probably-too-late/ by @ crampell ht @ tylercowen
- “It is colder in Canada and much of the northern US than on Mars” by @ MarsWxReport
- MissData http://missdata2015.agrocampus-ouest.fr/infoglueDeliverLive/ in Rennes, June 18-19, 2015
- “Science at risk as young researchers increasingly denied research grants” http://phys.org/news/2015-01-science-young-increasingly-denied-grants.html
- “Where And When It Rains” http://www.viewsoftheworld.net/?p=4224#more-4224 by @ geoviews
- “A History of the JEL Codes” http://ineteconomics.org/history-economics-playground/history-jel-codes-i-classifying-economics-during-war (1) http://ineteconomics.org/history-economics-playground/history-jel-codes-should-there-be-separate-economic-theory-category-par (2) and http://ineteconomics.org/history-economics-playground/history-jel-codes-making-microeconomics-and-macroeconomics-categories-p (3)
- “When Mark Zuckerberg Likes a Book, Sales Soar” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/business/media/when-mark-zuckerberg-likes-a-book-sales-soar.html
- All Buildings In the Netherlands By Age http://code.waag.org/buildings/ e.g. Amsterdam
- “Common Dyslexia Myths Debunked Using Neuroscience” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cognitive-neuroscience-society/using-neuroscience-to-bre_b_6390814.html (interesting – if you skip the first 4 points)
- “Math-based aids for making decisions in medicine and industry could improve many diagnoses” http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~maccoun/LP_SwetsDawesMonahan2000.pdf (back on the ROC curve)
- anatomy of tv shows, and anatomy of songs http://wronghands1.wordpress.com/
- “Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape” http://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/Women-Academic-Science.pdf
- death of important characters in children’s animated films versus dramatic films for adults http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7184.full.pdf+html
- “Expertise needed like never before” http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/61439/issue-expertise (about actuaries’ expertise…)
- “The Automated Academic” http://sylvaindeville.net/2015/01/04/the-automated-academic/ by @ DevilleSy
- “The Best of the 20th Century: Editors Name Top 10 Algorithms” https://www.siam.org/pdf/news/637.pdf (80% in less than 20 years, 1946-1965)
- Andy Field’s Statistical Glossary of http://uk.sagepub.com/field4e/ is awesome (or just purely insane) #repost
- Automation http://xkcd.com/1319/
- “10 Easy Steps to a Complete Understanding of SQL” http://tech.pro/tutorial/1555/10-easy-steps-to-a-complete-understanding-of-sql
- “Overcoming Impostor Syndrome” https://medium.com/@aliciatweet/overcoming-impostor-syndrome-bdae04e46ec5
- “Game theorists crack poker” http://www.nature.com/news/game-theorists-crack-poker-1.16683 (or sort of… an algorithm that always wins in the long run)
- [amazing ebook] “The Atlas of Economic Complexity” http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/media/atlas/pdf/HarvardMIT_AtlasOfEconomicComplexity.pdf via http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/about/ ht @ visionscarto
- “2040’s America will be like 1840’s Britain, with robots?” http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/searle20150109 ht @ deepstuff (about @ tylercowen )
- “How I survived my social media break” http://mashable.com/2015/01/03/social-media-break/ ht @ DTatUBC
- “Charlie Hebdo murders are no excuse for killing online freedom” https://gigaom.com/2015/01/08/charlie-hebdo-murders-are-no-excuse-for-killing-online-freedom/ by @ superglaze
- “How do Americans feel about Muhammad cartoons?” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/01/07/how-do-americans-feel-about-muhammad-cartoons/ by @ AaronBlakeWP
- Enjoy (by Robert Mankoff from The New Yorker Sept 2012)
- “Je Suis Charlie” http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/01/je-suis-charlie/ by @ alexmessie
- “The Charlie Hebdo terror attack victims” http://mashable.com/2015/01/07/charlie-hebdo-victims/?2
- “‘Je suis Charlie’? No, You’re Not, or Else You Might Be Dead” http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/07/je-suis-charlie-no-youre-not-or-else-you ht @ enraje
- “A Postcard From Paris” http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/a-postcard-from-paris/?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0 by @ jasonintrator
- Jan 7th, #jesuischarlie geolocalized http://srogers.cartodb.com/viz/123be814-96bb-11e4-aec1-0e9d821ea90d/embed_map
- “Joe Sacco: On Satire” http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/jan/09/joe-sacco-on-satire-a-response-to-the-attacks
ein tolles post, auf Deutsch
- “Das Land der Meinungsfreiheit zensiert sich selbst” http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/anschlag-in-paris-mohammed-karikaturen-verpixelt-13359826.html
et un peu de lecture en français
- ” La notion de pauvreté au Moyen Âge” http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rhef_0300-9505_1966_num_52_149_1751 ht @ monolecte
- “Le retour d’une conception utilitariste, moraliste et archaïque de la pauvreté” http://www.actuchomage.org/2011062016232/Mobilisations-luttes-et-solidarites/le-retour-dune-conception-utilitariste-moraliste-et-archaique-de-la-pauvrete.html ht @ Monolecte
- [free ebook] “Vers l’égalité des territoires” http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/var/storage/rapports-publics/134000131/0000.pdf
- “La recherche territoriale de l’égalité et de la justice” http://thelandofmaps.tumblr.com/post/107251032970/the-concept-of-french-departement-the-idea-and 1780 vs 1789 http://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/552369811230314497/photo/1
- “Jeunes chercheurs en temps d’austérité” http://www.sciencepresse.qc.ca/actualite/2014/12/31/jeunes-chercheurs-temps-dausterite ht @ mart1oeil @ SciencePresse
- Pekin (北京 , Beijing) et les 6 rocades, http://www.courrierinternational.com/files/2014/hebdos/1261/1261-infographie.jpg
- tiens, j’avais raté le ” @ coulmont pour les nuls” ht @ FrancoisKeck @ s01enne
- “un peu de reconnaissance” (ht @ Frederichoukair @ sandbriclot @ S01enne )
avec beaucoup de discussion cette semaine suite à la fusillade de mercredi dernier
- MT @ jeanne_balibar Le concept d’Union Nationale n’a servi qu’à des buts inavouables http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2015/01/09/trois-mots-pour-les-morts-et-pour-les-vivants_1177315
- “La peur d’une communauté qui n’existe pas” http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2015/01/09/la-peur-d-une-communaute-qui-n-existe-pas_4552804_3232.html
- “La représentation figurée du prophète Muhammad” http://ifpo.hypotheses.org/4445 (retour sur un billet de Vanessa Van Renterghem paru en 2012)
- “Non, tout le monde n’est pas Charlie” http://environnement.blogs.liberation.fr/noualhat/2015/01/non-tout-le-monde-nest-pas-charlie.html
- ça frôle l’idolâtrie, je sais, mais (comme souvent) le @ guygdelisle paru dans @ libe de ce matin est beau
- “Une conf de rédac à Charlie Hebdo, ça ressemblait à ça” http://www.lesinrocks.com/inrocks.tv/une-conf-de-redac-charlie-hebdo-cetait-ca/ (en février 2006) https://youtu.be/oNXTZx9j3As
- “Etre ou ne pas être Charlie” http://www.arretsurimages.net/breves/2015-01-09/Etre-ou-ne-pas-etre-Charlie-id18391 par @ d_schneidermann
- “Le désarroi d’une prof qui parle de “Charlie” à ses élèves” http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/le-desarroi-d-une-prof-qui-parle-de-charlie-a-ses-eleves-09-01-2015-1895173_23.php#xtor=CS2-239 via @ politeeks et @ tomroud
- “La presse satirique française, une arme politique héritée de la Révolution” https://fr.news.yahoo.com/presse-satirique-fran%C3%A7aise-arme-politique-h%C3%A9rit%C3%A9e-r%C3%A9volution-171731746.html @ MyriamChaplainR et @ Iovene
- via @ econoclaste Charlie Hebdo : les tueurs seraient des sociologues (éconosky) http://econoclaste.org.free.fr/econoclaste/?page_id=12384
- Je suis Charlie, par @ joachimroncin http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/01/07/qui-est-a-lorigine-de-je-suis-charlie_n_6432042.html
- merci @ ledevoir pour cette compilation http://www.ledevoir.com/dossiers/charlie-hebdo-attaque/29 “Charlie Hebdo attaqué”
- “Bernard Maris, la disparition d’un économiste passionné” http://www.telerama.fr/medias/bernard-maris-la-disparition-d-un-economiste-passionne,121366.php par @ AudeDassonville
- La presse internationale face à Charlie Hebdo http://www.arretsurimages.net/articles/2015-01-07/Presse-internationale-Charlie-Hebdo-le-cauchemar-que-la-France-a-toujours-redoute-id7357
- via @ LesEchos “Bernard Maris, économiste iconoclaste et vulgarisateur hors pair” http://trib.al/tCdG5ln ht @ adelaigue
- “Bernard Maris, quand Onc’ Bernard faisait sauter la banque” http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2015/01/07/bernard-maris-quand-onc-bernard-faisait-sauter-la-banque_1175560
- RT @ affordanceinfo Luz. La lumière. http://www.lesinrocks.com/?p=545315
- “Cabu, le grand Duduche assassiné” http://www.telerama.fr/medias/cabu-le-grand-duduche-assassine,121363.php par @ LaurenceLeSaux
- “Bernard Maris et ses amis de Charlie Hebdo” http://economibasic.blogspot.fr/2015/01/bernard-maris-et-ses-amis-de-charlie.html ht @ adelaigue
- “C’est quoi l’esprit « Charlie-Hebdo » ?” http://www.lemonde.fr/m-actu/article/2015/01/07/c-est-quoi-l-esprit-charlie-hebdo_4551065_4497186.html#TzbhZ3Z4B6bUoype.99 par @ pjaxel
- “Oncle Bernard, tu vas nous manquer” http://econoclaste.org.free.fr/econoclaste/?p=12476 par @ econoclaste (très joli billet, merci Stéphane)
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